Post Cinematic Affect

Assayas’ difficult task, therefore, is to translate (or, more precisely, to transduce) the impalpable flows and forces of finance into images and sounds that we can apprehend on the screen. His aesthetic problem is the same one that Deleuze ascribes to Francis Bacon: “How can one make invisible forces visible? ” (Deleuze 2005, 41; we could also add, audible)